[H-GEN] Key-signing at Humbug: Saturday, 1st March 2003

[Harry Phillips]

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>
>Folks,
>
>I currently have nine keys for the PGP/GPG keysigning party at
>Humbug on Saturday, 1st March 2003 and encourage more people to
>participate in the this key-signing by:
>
>   1. Email your public key to suter at humbug.org.au before noon
>      Wednesday, 26 February 2003.  Not just the fingerprint, but
>      the whole key as it currently stands.  I will explicitly
>      acknowledge all keys within 24 hours.
>
>   2. Print out your PGP/GPG fingerprint and bring it with you.
>
>   3. Bring sufficient photographic ID that you can prove to
>      others that you are who you claim to be (drivers' licence,
>      passport, etc).
>
>  
>
Forgive my ingnorance but what is this for? What benefits can it provide?

Is it so that people can't forge that the mail is from me when it isn't? 
What else is it used for?

I can get some sort of key signed, is that like getting an autograph 
from a celeberity, do you collect these 'keys' after they are signed?

Who actually uses these keys?

>For more information, please visit
>
>    http://zwitterion.org/keys/2003-03-01/
>  
>
Did that, but it didn't give answers to my questions, it just repeated 
what is already said in the mail above.

Regards
Harry


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